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KB2UZY Bryan F. Torres Springfield, MA QCWA # 38384 |
Hi, Thanks for looking me up on QRZ.com. My name is Bryan I was born and raised in the city and state of Brooklyn, NY. Coney Island and Brighton beach area which is a couple of variations of 5 to 20 feet above sea level. I moved from the Big Apple of New York City to the wonderfull city of Springfield Massachusetts in August of 1995. Springfield is greatly known because of the Springfield Armory Military Firearms since 1794 until 1968 and the famous Indian Motorcycle Company since 1901 to 1953 in Winchester Square, Smith & Wesson firearms 1852 till the present day. Also the Birth place of Basketball, It started in Springfield College back in 1891, Which today holds the new building of the Basketball Hall Of Fame in Springfield Mass till this very present day, My QTH is approximately about 85 miles / 135 kilometers West of the famous known Capital City of Boston Massachusetts. My elevation in height of my QTH location is approximately 203 feet / 61 meters above sea level living 3 miles SW of the Connecticut river in the Pioneer Vally which is about 50 feet above sea level in down town Springfield. The Radio Station consists of a Yaesu FT-1000D fully 8 International Radio (INRAD) filters and 1 INRAD Roofing Mod Filter plus 2 500 Hz CW Sub Receive Filters total of 11 Filters installed, www.inrad.net, W8JI "Key Click & Noise Blanker Modification Kit", Latest EPROM Version 6, MARS & CAPS Mod, Yaesu SP 5 speaker with the Timewave 59Y DSP and SP 5 LL5 Phone patch speaker. The Amplifier is a Ameritron 811H & Kenwood TL-922A. Power meters are the Bird 43P with the pep kit and the Nye Viking 5K power meter monitor. The microphones are the Heil PR 40 & Heil PR 7 & Heil ProSet plus 4/5 cartridge head sets. The CW keys are a 1922 Black Japan base Bug and Straight keys are 1890s JH Bunnels, Western Electric, SpeedX keys. The antenna I'm using for 10 thru 20 meters is a Hy Gain TH11DX @ 50 feet / 15 meters above ground with LMR 400 50 ohm coaxial cable to a Grounded Surge Arrester Panel out side the House (QTH) then to the radio. My rotator is a Yaesu G-2800 DXA with the GA-3000 shock absorba on a Grounded Rohn 25 G tower. For 30 thru 160 meters using a Hy Gain DB-2BDQ 101 feet inverted Vee Dipole antenna to a 1.1 Hy Gain BN 4000 Balun then LMR 400 50 ohm coaxial cable to a Grounded Surge Arrester Panel out side the House (QTH) to the Nye Viking MVA 3K (ATU) Antenna Tunner Unit. For the USAF MARS frequencies I'm using a Dedicated NVIS 140 feet Cobra Sr antenna 160 to 10 meters made by K1JEK from NH, www.k1jek.com, The 81 feet of 450 ohm ladder line from the Cobra is out side the shack to a High Power 4.1 balun by DX Engineering to keep out any stray RF that may build up in the shack out side, Then LMR 400 50 ohm coaxial cable to a Grounded Surge Arrester Panel out side the house (QTH) then into the Nye Viking MVA 3K (ATU) antenna tuner unit. Also have as well 6 mtrs, 2 mtrs, 70cm Equipment capability as well as a Emergency go kit. From the Mobile i'm using a Icom Ic 7000 and the HF Antenna is a Diamond SD-330 3.5 to 50 MHz. For VHF & UHF dual bander using a 5/8 wave Comet CA2x4SR with optional spring. The key I'm using in the Mobile is a WW2 J37 leg key on my thigh. My main passion and gold is to meet fellow Friendly Ham Radio Operators around the World DX & State side on CW & SSB Phone on all the bands. I'm also involved and very active in the Emergency Preparedness in the City of Springfield Mass EOC, ARES ARRL EC-001, RACES, USAF MARS (AFA1AH) Email: AFA1AH@afmarsne.org , Current Member of (HWN) Hurricane Watch Net www.hwn.org, (NWS) National Weather Service www.weather.gov, (NOAA) National Oceanic And Atmospheric www.noaa.gov, (NHC) National Hurricane Center www.nhc.noaa.gov, Also trained SKYWARN Spotter www.skywarn.org. The Back Yard Weather Station is a Davis Vantage Pro2 Plus (wireless) with UV & Solar Radiation, Heated rain gauge www.davisinstruments.com, Running off the latest (WD) Weather Display www.weather-display.com, Cumulus Program www.sandaysoft.com, Peet Brothers Ultimeter 2100 Unimount Sensor Array with heated Anemometer and Wind Vane and Multi Weather Picture displays, Heated rain gauge www.peetbros.com. All weather related information is being sent via internet to the CWOP "KB2UZY" www.wxqa.com, Live Current WUnderground "KB2UZY"https://www.wunderground.com/personal-weather-station/dashboard?ID=KMASPRIN28&cm_ven=localwx_pwsdash , WeatherBug "KB2UZY" www.weatherbug.com, Globe Program www.globe.gov, Davis Weatherlink.com, CoCoRaHS MA-HD-23 using a 4 inch Manual clear NWS rain gauge www.cocorahs.org. National Weather Service (NWS) Cooperative Observer Program (COOP) in Norton, MA in Boston reporting daily Precipitation Measurements (Rain, Snow, Hail,) with a Manual 8 inch round Standard Rain Gauge (SRG) holding 20 inchs of rain fall in the rain gauge www.weather.gov. Amateur Radio and (SWL) Short Wave Listing, (PWS) Personal Weather Stations, Monitoring Police, Fire, Ambulance and Aircrafts scanner master listing, Tropical marine salt water exotic fish and coral reef, The fish tank is a Red Sea Max S 650 tank 175 gallons of water or 650 Litre of water www.redseafish.com, These are my 5 major hobbies for over 30 plus years. My weather interest is exchanging and knowing the atmosphere conditions of the other Hams location if possible to imagine there operating atmosphere conditions at the moment of contact. I'm also bilingual Si Hablo Espanol (English and Spanish). I would like to say Thank you very much for looking me up on QRZ.com hope to meet you on the AIR, Muchas Gracias best of 73's C U L from Kilo Bravo Two Uniform Zulu Yankee. 10X 66777, Fist 2356, CC 115, SKCC 15951, NAQCC # 9598, DXCC CW & Phone, WAS CW & Phone. WAC CW & Phone.
December 10, 2020